Category Archives: Saved CRCVoices Posts

God is both more exclusive and more tolerant that we are or imagine is moral

Posted on March 31, 2017 by

Our theological heritage has a sort of contradictory position with respect to sin and toleration. On one hand we embrace the antithesis which is actually, ironically being argued by both sides here. Those arguing for banishing complementarianism are coming out strong … Continue reading →

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Learning from the Reform movements of the 1840s and 50s to gain perspective on today’s culture war

Posted on October 13, 2016 by

Prompted by that New Yorker piece on the Utopians I picked up a book on the Oneida community written by a descendant if its founder. https://www.amazon.com/Oneida-Free-Utopia-Well-Set-Table-ebook/dp/B0140PFNVQ It is a fascinating read on many levels. The “burned over district”  produced some … Continue reading →

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The Day the Donald Broke the Twitter

Posted on October 7, 2016 by

In case you’re living under a right wing rock… https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-recorded-having-extremely-lewd-conversation-about-women-in-2005/2016/10/07/3b9ce776-8cb4-11e6-bf8a-3d26847eeed4_story.html It’s been a free-for-all. My favorite tweet was this one. https://twitter.com/micahjmurray/status/784509361733251072/photo/1 Russell Moore reposted his NYTimes piece from last year. http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/17/opinion/have-evangelicals-who-support-trump-lost-their-values.html In the middle of this the evangelical sub-conversation is … Continue reading →

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Bonobos in the NYT, Elizabeth Gilbert and Natural Law

Posted on September 10, 2016 by

I opened up the NY Times website this morning and read a fascinating article on Bonobos. http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/science/bonobos-apes-matriarchy.html I like science pieces and enjoy learning about primates but the fascination goes beyond this. Is this just a science piece? Why the … Continue reading →

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The Loss of Christian Intellectuals

Posted on August 30, 2016 by

HT: MereOrthodoxy and Francis Shaeffer Mere Orthodoxy Podcast discussion Alan Jacobs The Watchmen The model of separate-but-equal domains that Father Neuhaus chose may be the best that is generally available for most Christian intellectuals, but it means that the larger public sphere, the … Continue reading →

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The UCC Finds my Inner Calvinist

Posted on June 8, 2016 by

Truth Revolt These pieces always remind me that the new moralism is strongly religious. Not too long ago I heard a lot of complaining about the doctrine of total depravity because it sets people up to be self-loathing. The more … Continue reading →

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How Confessions Relocate Law

Posted on June 3, 2016 by

It Gets Better Whichever way you go on LGBTQ you can’t simply deny or avoid stories or judgments like these. For so many people these stories just expose the judgment of the tellers as self evident, but if you embrace … Continue reading →

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